Since the moment Faerin Lothar was datamined i've seen alot of 'OoHh aNDUIN'S FUTURE WIFE????' and as annoying as that is you know what?? Ill accept it if he takes her last name.
I've completed MoP Anduin and you can download him here!
He's not perfect but for my first shimeji I think he's really cute. I want to do Wrathion next, but also like...ya know a battle pet would make a great shimeji, and Cinder Kitten has a really cute and simple design...
I'd love to take part to your dragon au honestly cuz it's such a fun concept!!! Alas, I have no idea which character I could do (brain freezing when trying to make a choice)
So are there any characters you have no idea for yet, or think could have a cool concept???👀
Oh you can do anyone you want!!! Even characters I've done already. Actually I'd love to see other people's takes on a dragon Anduin because as much as I like mine I don't feel as confident in it as Thrall or Valeera's design. Like...would you have known it was him if I didn't tell you? He's one of those characters that could be alot of different things. Years ago I drew him as the albino drake (the mount whose only lore is we don't know what flight it's from). I could probably redesign Shadowreaper but base it on the Voidwing mount??
Hmm I mentioned Velen before. A Rexxar fan said Rexxar would be a green dragon and that'd be pretty cool, draw him with his animal companions. I know Sylvanas would be undead but I'm not sure what she'd be when she was living, and its probably helpful to figure that out before designing what she looks like dead. I'm not sure what Arthas would be but maybe Invincible would be neat to use for design inspiration.
Alternatively you could even ask the question what race the dragons would be in this AU since they'd be born as mortals and can't pick a visage. like idunno I just picture Alexstrasza as a Tauren. Nozdormu as a wise old troll.
OH May I ask what your headcanon dragon species are for each playable race? Or do you feel they differ? :0
Oooh okay uhh I have a few thoughts...
Considering my goal with this AU is mostly just to have fun and practice drawing/designing dragons, I havn’t really thought tooo hard about any serious headcanons for a dragon au, buuttt so far I do think i’ve realized a few things.
I’ve been approaching this less race by race and more individual character, where i take into account what flight the character has story with, what flight closely matches their powers, and just what colors that character shares design wise. (and then there are the two sen’dorei dragons based solely on mobs related to the race)
Wrynns, and stormwindians in general, i think of more as onyxian black dragons, because of their story being tied so closely. (it also makes it easy to flip their story, in that Onyxia is a cultist human who kills Varian’s mate and eggs and attempts to corrupt the only surviving whelp. Ive thought alot about this.)
Kal’dorei are very often green dragons, and for some reason I picture them all with long thin faces like alligators or crocodiles.
Thrall is easily the black dragon aspect, but I had to ask a lot of people what they thought Baine was and I decided hes half black half green, but i’ve seen people go for red. Its funny how some characters are obvious (Jaina, blue) while others everyone says something different. Vol’jin is also one i’ve seen lots of differing answers on.
Valeera i suppose is a red dragon with fel influence, but i didn't decide that until AFTER i drew her. I try to keep them recognizable, so I try not to switch their colors up to fit a certain flight if it doesn’t work. Im thinking about characters like Velen and I saw someone say a bronze dragon, and i can’t help but picture this old wise Crystalline-infused bronze with purple accents and like….ooh he’d look so cool. But he’d also be majority bronze in color? Maybe he should be stone drake…or like netherwing dragons just match dreanei so well.
I’ve noticed of all flights the Bronze are the hardest to match characters too. I also want to draw someone as a fey dragon but I can't think of who would work well as one.
Also something I think is interesting about this au is how it changes family dynamics. Like…Thrall, Baine, and Anduin are all black dragons. Do they have a closer relationship than canon, in which they view each other more akin to brothers? Looking at the Maw storyline again but this time Thrall and Baine have to rescue their brother, not just a friend. This time they're part of a flight known to be easily corruptable, how does that change things?
I feel like this dragon au is a gold mine and I hope other artists and writers join me in it cuz like....there is so much potential.